TY - GEN
T1 - DataGopher
T2 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE IRI 2014
AU - Singhal, Ayush
AU - Kasturi, Ravindra
AU - Srivastava, Jaideep
PY - 2014/2/27
Y1 - 2014/2/27
N2 - Scientific dataseis play a crucial role in data-driven research. While, several search tools are developed for searching documents, blogs, images, videos and various other information needs, important scientific artifacts like research dataseis lack this prerogative. The main challenge faced in developing an effective search tool for dataseis is to determine the content representation of the raw data. Dataset description provided by users is often very content-specific and short. Moreover, even the public dataseis generally have very limited description about the various research problems/applications that used them. Given the ever expanding variety of dataseis on the web and the lack of representative content for the purpose of indexing, the task of developing an effective search engine for dataset is computationally very challenging. In this work, we propose a novel 'context' based paradigm of search for dataset to overcome the problem of limited representative content for research dataseis. In contrast to any general purpose search engine which index the 'little' text information about the dataset sources, we hypothesized that the proposed paradigm of 'context' based search is more effective for dataset search. The hypothesis is tested by conducting a user study. The performance of the context based search (DataGopher) is compared with a popular general purpose search engine. The study was conducted in a real world setting where user are free to use the search engine as per the information need. Based on the user study, we find that the performance of DataGopher was favored for 58% of the total context based user queries whereas the baseline was only 26%.
AB - Scientific dataseis play a crucial role in data-driven research. While, several search tools are developed for searching documents, blogs, images, videos and various other information needs, important scientific artifacts like research dataseis lack this prerogative. The main challenge faced in developing an effective search tool for dataseis is to determine the content representation of the raw data. Dataset description provided by users is often very content-specific and short. Moreover, even the public dataseis generally have very limited description about the various research problems/applications that used them. Given the ever expanding variety of dataseis on the web and the lack of representative content for the purpose of indexing, the task of developing an effective search engine for dataset is computationally very challenging. In this work, we propose a novel 'context' based paradigm of search for dataset to overcome the problem of limited representative content for research dataseis. In contrast to any general purpose search engine which index the 'little' text information about the dataset sources, we hypothesized that the proposed paradigm of 'context' based search is more effective for dataset search. The hypothesis is tested by conducting a user study. The performance of the context based search (DataGopher) is compared with a popular general purpose search engine. The study was conducted in a real world setting where user are free to use the search engine as per the information need. Based on the user study, we find that the performance of DataGopher was favored for 58% of the total context based user queries whereas the baseline was only 26%.
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U2 - 10.1109/IRI.2014.7051964
DO - 10.1109/IRI.2014.7051964
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946690249
T3 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE IRI 2014
SP - 749
EP - 756
BT - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE IRI 2014
A2 - Bertino, Elisa
A2 - Thuraisingham, Bhavani
A2 - Liu, Ling
A2 - Joshi, James
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 13 August 2014 through 15 August 2014
ER -